We weren’t sure where to head next so we plumped for the option of least driving and set course for the Sundays River Valley. This is the same river as we stayed on in Colchester but further inland. We ended up staying at Avoca River Chalets on ... Read more >

Following a slightly warmer night with a tad more shuteye we were up and ready to leave early doors. We did a short game drive on the way out of Karoo but still no sign of those pesky meerkats. We had our fingers crossed for spotting them in our next ... Read more >

We were on the road by 9am knowing that we had quite a long drive ahead of us. We weren’t in any particular hurry so we enjoyed the forest and mountainous scenery along the next stretch of the Garden Route. On driving through Kynsna our immediate ... Read more >

The Garden Route lived up to its name as we headed towards Plettenburg Bay, it really is very scenic and green. It didn’t take us long to reach Plett and we soon located Nothando Backpackers. Now backpackers seems to have a different connotation ... Read more >

We headed along the famous ‘Garden Route’ which is a scenic drive along the coast towards Cape Town with Tsitsikamma being our destination. The weather didn’t look too promising and we encountered a downpour on route but we were not ... Read more >

We headed back to the coast because we wanted to get our fill of the seaside now that we live in a landlocked country. Oh, and some friends of our in Kampala had very generously offered to let us use their holiday flat in Port St Francis. We weren’... Read more >

Into the Hills in Hogsback
Hogsback is a lovely 2 hour drive from Grahamstown and we took it steady as we enjoyed the scenic mountain vistas. We passed a huge section of private game reserve comprising the Great Fish Conservation Area Complex but ... Read more >

We said goodbye to our home at The Nightjar and drove along the N72 through beautiful rolling hills and farm land towards the ‘Sunshine Coast’. Luckily for us it was living up to its name and the winter in South Africa was turning out to ... Read more >

We had a fairly comfortable night in our tent and it was not as cold as granny’s cottage in Colesburg! We did another game drive on the way out of Mountain Zebra and made a vow to come back and do the cheetah tracking activity next time.
We ... Read more >

We visited South Africa briefly at the end of our trip through Southern Africa last year and loved the country instantly. We vowed there and then to go back someday soon.
Well this time we wanted to explore a lot more and decided to hire a car for ... Read more >

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